A divided Congress and other issues have led to the lowest number of bills passed in the first year of a congressional session in history, experts said.

Only 34 bills were passed last year, according to data.

Lawmakers are halfway through the congressional session, and it looks like it could be a historic one for the wrong reasons, according to congressional data.

The 118th Congress is on track to being one of the least functional sessions ever, with only 34 bills passed since January of last year, the lowest number of bills passed in the first year of a congressional session since the Great Depression, according to congressional records.

“Even comparing against other periods of divided government, 2023 was definitely not a high water mark for Congress’ productivity,” Molly Reynolds, a senior governance fellow at the nonpartisan research group the Brookings Institution, told ABC News.

  • Endorkend@kbin.social
    201·
    6 months ago

    That’s conservatives across the board, say things don’t work and prove it by making things not work.

    Over here the latest example of this is that they’ve been doing their best to ruin the public transport system for the past several decades, with a major push in doing so starting the sixth this month.

    The new transportation plan they pushed is designed to make public transport utterly useless for anyone that actually uses it regularly.